The Crafter's Dilemma: A Dungeon Core Novel (Dungeon Crafting Book 3) Jonathan Brooks (me reader TXT) 📖

That was intriguing, though it didn’t really help in the current situation, especially as using more than one Orb at a time helped Violet to regenerate her elemental energy quite quickly already.  Violet seemed to dismiss the idea of doing something like that probably because of the same reasons, but as something for the future it was an aspect of the Energy Orbs that might be useful.

* How long do you think the Stasis Field would stay operational with one of these setups attached to it? *

Sandra was hoping she would say something like 10 to 15 years…and was severely disappointed.  “Well, seeing as the enchantment without anything extra lasts approximately a week, I would assume that with a Spirit Energy Orb powering it that it might last…a year?  I can’t be more precise than that, but I’m going on my own experience with the Orb and how much it replenishes my own energy compared to how much it has been consumed in the process.”

The Dungeon Core could definitely see a difference in the Spirit Orb Violet had around her neck – it was her original one, in fact.  It wasn’t a huge difference, but in approximately 5 days it was perhaps 20% smaller. Of course, this was with almost constant use by Violet and the Stasis Field would consume a bit less…

With a little mental math on her own part with some guesstimates thrown in, Sandra had to admit that Violet was probably right; even if she was off by a lot and it lasted two years, it wasn’t quite as long as the Dungeon Core wanted if she was hoping her Enchantment Repository would outlast Sandra herself if something were to happen to her Core.

* What’s the likelihood of using two – or even more? *

The Gnome was already shaking her head before Sandra even finished her question.  “Wouldn’t work – or at least not without a lot of time to experiment, and to follow up with it over time.  You could set them to automatically regulate the input/output, but with two or more doing it, they would all contribute the energy needed – which would end up in disaster after a short time as it overloaded the Field enchantment.  The same goes for anything else; two or more Energy Orbs connected to the enchantment would cause it to fail the same as if it didn’t have a Limiter.

“That’s not to say it isn’t possible, but you’d have to manually adjust the amount being fed into it from each rune sequence to balance out the output; this might work in the short term, but if it’s allowed to continue unchecked, if the energy amount being fed into it was just a fraction too much or too little, over time it would eventually fade or overload, depending on the outcome. It could take years, but then you’ll have the same problem as now.

“A year of maintaining this Stasis Field is incredible, however – something that I wouldn’t have thought possible even a few days ago.  Replacing the Limiter Energy Orb enchantment is easy enough at that point.”

On anything else, Sandra would have to agree – going from 1 week to 52 weeks of power was quite the improvement.  It didn’t solve her problem of sustaining the enchantments even if something interfered with that replacement; for instance, what if in the future she went for a Core Size upgrade and it lasted a few months, rather than a few days.  She could wake up and find that it had all been undone because she took a prolonged vacation from the outside world and was stuck in her own mind.

No, there had to be something else Sandra could do.  She was disappointed about not being able to place two or more – as Violet had coined it – Limiter Energy Orb enchantments to power something; the extra quantity of power would make all the difference.  It was just a shame that she could only make Large Elemental Orbs—

Wait…that may not be the case.

It was true that, according to her Monster Seed Origination menu, she could only make up to Large Elemental Orbs for the purpose of being Monster Seeds, but did that mean she couldn’t create something larger on her own?  She could make walls of Steel and bars of Iron without having them be Monster Seeds, so why not condensed Mana Elemental Orbs.

She hadn’t even thought of it before because she didn’t really consider Mana to be a “material” like Iron, Cotton cloth, or even an Oak plank of wood; it didn’t really have a physical state of substance except when it was condensed into an Elemental Orb, so she never really played around with it other than when she first discovered how to create their Tiny versions – and had unlocked the others just by spending Mana to create their Seeds.

Can I make…an even larger Orb?

Right now, the Large Elemental Orbs were approximately a third the size of one of Violet’s hands, which allowed her to hold two in her hand relatively comfortably.  Sandra wanted to see if it was possible to make one at least twice the size of a Large Elemental Orb – so she went back in her mind to the day she created the very first one: a Tiny Fire Elemental Orb.  If she remembered correctly, she had pulled out 50 Fire Mana and brought it forth into a spherical shape before she mentally condensed it into a much smaller sphere – and just like that, it was done.  She had then created Tiny examples of each element but had never bothered to actually create anything larger.

After telling Violet to hold off on adding anything to the Stasis Fields, Sandra switched her focus to the farthest room she had excavated behind her Home; she was going to try something that could be dangerous and she didn’t want